Ancient Greek Phillosophers
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- Ancient Greek Phillosophers
- Plato
- Convinced that this world is an imitation of another, much greater reality.
- He thought that the world is constantly changing and therefore can not be an object of true knowledge.
- He thought that there must be another realm where things are eternal and unchanging, a world beyond this one, which he understood to be the REALM OF THE FORMS.
- He thought we could gain knowledge if this through using our REASON
- He thought that there must be another realm where things are eternal and unchanging, a world beyond this one, which he understood to be the REALM OF THE FORMS.
- He is a rationalist
- Aristotle
- Believed that the physical world around us can give up a great deal of information
- He was fascinated by science and thought that the SENSE experience was the primary way to gain knowledge.
- He is an empiricist
- Socrates
- His teaching was first to encourage a critical thinking of commonly held assumptions
- He thought that people needed to be trained to look beneath surface appearances and learn how to ask questions
- He thought that we should learn how to challenge our own assumptions and how to recognise the difference between knowledge and opinion, and how to form judgements
- He would take a concept like 'justice' and try work out what we mean by it
- Rather than assuming that everyone has a common understanding of what justice is about
- Plato
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